'Ask Mamma', or The Richest Commoner In England

Bath: George Bayntun, 1926.. Jorrocks Edition. Pp.x/425, coloured frontispiece + 19 full page wood engravings and many further wood engravings in the text, a couple of spots to endpapers. Blue illustrated cloth with gilt title to spine, slightly rubbed with small bumps to corners. G+.

London: Bradbury, Evans, and Co, 1858. Very good plus.. First book edition of this humorous tale of the romantic (mis)adventures of two generations of the Pringle family, an ambitious clan with a love of hunting - with Leech's beautiful hand-colored plates. Robert Smith Surtees, though somewhat obscure today, was a cutting-edge humorist of the mid-to-late 19th century. William… Read more about this item

London: Methuen & Co, 1904. Hardcover. Very Good. New edition, reprint of the 1858 edition. 16mo. 525pp., 4pp. of advertisements. Red cloth with paper spine label. Illustrated with sixty-nine woodcuts by John Leech and thirteen in color. Endpapers tanned, spine faded, a very good copy. Additional, bright spine label bound in rear. "The Illustrated Pocket Library of Plain… Read more about this item

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1858. Cloth. Good. John Leech. John Leech. xii, 412 pages. 9 x 6 inches. Hand-coloured frontispiece plus 12 hand-coloured plates with 69 wood engravings to the text by John Leech. Publisher's maroon boards with decorations in blind and gilt. Spine sunned, top edges dusted. A few places where the signatures are coming loose from… Read more about this item

London: Bradbury, Agnew, 1892. hardcover. very good. By the author of "Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour" &c, &c. Illustrated by John Leech with a hand-colored frontispiece and many b/w wood engravings, some full-page. 423pp. 8vo, original blue cloth with red, black, grey & gilt-stamped pictorial cover and spine (spine is slightly darkened and worn at tips). London: Bradbury, Agnew… Read more about this item

Printed for Subscribers. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Subscription edition. The red boards are a bit marked and worn. A little tanning. Soundly bound.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.